Students at Georgetown University have been able to fulfill their distros with a unique class this fall – “Sociology of Hip-Hop: Jay-Z.” The 140 students in the class analyze the rapper’s lyrics, looking at what they say about hip-hop culture. Michael Eric Dyson, the 52-year-old professor even has some street cred; Jay-Z praises him saying, “How many folk out there can talk about pimping in terms laid out by Hegel? Or use Kant to explain the way that prison fashion moved from the cellblock to the city block?” It’s not all academic though. Dyson texts Jay-Z about the course, inviting him to visit, leading to the most important question – how can we get Jay-Z’s number?
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Georgetown students take course on Jay-Z
